Garment-fastening.



PATENTED APR. 10, 1906 APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFTCE.

GARMENT-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented April 10, 1906.

Application filed May 22,1905. Serial No. 261,640.

To Z7 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERCY ALEXANDER CHARLES BATES, a subject of the Kingof Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 69 Delaware Mansions,Sutherland avenue, London, England, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Garment-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention refers to an improved fastening device for articles ofdress.

The object of the invention is to provide a garment fastener of twoseparate parts which are put together by inserting one into the otherand which two parts when fastened and attached to the garment will befirmly held together, and in order that my said invention may be betterunderstood I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to thedrawings accompanying this specification, which illustrate certain formsof such fastenings.

Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 ent forms of the first part. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8are side elevations of the respective forms. Figs. 9 and 10 arerespectively a plan and side elevation of the second part. Figs. 11 and12 show the two parts, the first part having the form shown in Figs. 2and 6 as they would appear when locked-in Fig. 11 when there is atension on the materials and in Fig. 12 when there is no such tension.Fig. 13 shows the position of the parts when the first part is beinginserted into the second.

The same letters of reference are employed to denote the same parts inall the figures.

The first part of the garment-fastener consists of one piece ofmaterial, preferably springy wire, having the two ends bent to showplans of differform the attaching-eyes a and b and a bod portion bent toform a loop A and the contracted neck portion 6. c and d designateplaces in the loop A of the first part of the device which can also beused as attachingpoints. This part is preferably bent up in the center,so that the eyes a and b and loop A are in one plane and the neckportion in a plane parallel to the first plane. The second part of thedevice (illustrated in Figs. 9 and 10) is also made of one piece ofmaterial, preftwo attaching-eyes erably of springy wire, and consists ofthe yand 9, two triangular loops B B, the loop being bent at rightangles to the eye f and again bent back and around from the eye f toform the base-piece C, the other loop B, and the other eye g. 71 shows acontracted opening between the triangular loops B and B, through whichthe contracted neck e of the first part passes.

The form of the first part (shown in Figs. 2 and 6) has been chosen forthe purpose of illustrating the position of the parts when locked bothbecause it is a convenient form in practice and because owing to the contracted portion being more central than in the other forms it is easierto show on the drawings the position of the parts when locked.

Itwill be seen that the fastening can be closed with the greatestfacility by simply pressing the neck e into the opening in the secondpart, and when the tension comes on the article of dress which isfastened the fastoning remains firmly locked by the enlarged partscoming into the enlargement is (see Fig. 10) under the contractedportion of the other part of the fastening. When the fastening isattached to a loose garment, the opposite wedge prevents it comingunfastened in a similar manner. This position is shown at Fig. 12. Itcan, however, be separated with great ease by simply pulling thematerial provided with the fastening upward, when the neck e slipsthrough the opening and the fastening is immediately released.

It is obvious that I may vary the form of the device to suitrequirements, while retaining the principle of the fastening namely, apart having a contracted middle portion and enlarged ends and anotherpart containing an opening contracted at the top and suitably formed forthe reception and retention in position of the other part in the mannerabove described, one or both of such parts being constructed of springywire or the like.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is

In a garment-fastener, a fastening member of one piece, comprisinattaching-eyes, oppositely-disposed triangu ar loops bent up from saidattaching-eyes and bent to form In testimony whereof I alfix mysignature an opening adapted to receive the other in presence of twoWitnesses.

member and a connecting base-piece bent 1 y 1 from said triangularloops, in combination PERCY ALEXANDER CHARLES 5 with a second fasteningmember adapted to Witnesses:

be inserted between said triangular loops of ALEX BROWNE,

the first member, substantially as described. A. E. VIDAL.

